The designer of physical display sets is declaring an interim dividend of one Singapore cent per share, on a par with its year-ago payout.

For the six months ended June 30, net profit fell 40.3 per cent to S$2.3 million.

Revenue rose 6.1 per cent to S$87.9 million in the second quarter, led by exhibitions and thematics sales' 7.1 per cent increase to S$45.4 million.

Cost of sales, however, rose by a steeper 7.5 per cent, to S$67.0 million, while other items of expense increased by 2 per cent to S$18.6 million to contribute to an after-tax profit decline of 4.2 per cent, to S$3.0 million. But the company incurred a translation loss of just S$692,000 from exchange differences in the second quarter, 31 per cent less than the S$1.0 million loss from a year earlier.